Alright, after checking Polygon, GamesRadar, and IGN articles, there are mentions of DRM but not the malware payloads (I guess the original article I looked at might have conflated this guy with someone else). I’ll retract that part of the statement.

It’s a bit of telephone, I got that segment from an article discussing the topic. Let me see if I can locate it.

Man, nintendo pirates stay winning :)

“Know your fucking place, trash”

• Filthy Frank (.deb/.appimage enthusiast)

Oh, I bet. They probably hate GrayJay more though.

GrapheneOS is luckily out of their jurisdiction :)

Lineage, Graphene, and /e/ OS are all forks I believe, not alternatives (since they are dependent on the main Android branch for some updates and feature implementations).

Linux phones don’t really have enough support for the necessary applications to be viable for most people, at least for now.

Then it’ll be moved to a self-hosted git in a country where that doesn’t matter. Or the scene will host copies.

The modder in question for this case is not above placing DRM within his paid mods to prevent free distribution. So I’m skeptical of any system of monetization not immediately succumbing to malicious compliance.

Mods are by the community, for the community. If your mod has enough significance that you believe it is worth monetizing - create your own game with the endless amount of tools available with that hallmark feature. (Or actually talk to the devs to work out an official arrangement rather than being a hardass and witnessing the consequences of your arrogance)

…you are aware of the perverse incentives that kind of system would bring right?

“Here’s alpha 0.01. It gets to the title screen.”

“If you donate here’s version 2.00 to download with experimental (wink) features such as actual playthrough complete testing.”

The hacker known as “4chan”

Nah, we’d love to see you cook. Hell, you could hook up your piano keyboard to your PC and experiment with music creation or using MIDI for keyboard shortcuts (can be fun to try to game with lol)

Regarding EVs I agree with you, but I was referring to battery production.

As for Chinese production leading the charge, I also think that’s apt, but I’m referring to the availability of domestic alternatives for things such as military production, which seems to only being kickstarted recently compared to say the 2010s. Currently, it seems like compromises will have to be made in order to minimize reliance on imported batteries from China, which is not necessarily a problem for the consumer market, but may be for governments seeking isolationist policies for their self-sufficiency (EU, US).

There is still plenty of time for things to change of course, but there are plenty of missed opportunities along the way.

Oh, certainly. However, if enough nations had their heads out of their asses and spoke with engineers rather than oil tycoons, we’d have a more competitive and distributed market for these technologies and a lower future dependence on Chinese imports for said technologies.

Right now, I can see a chokehold forming on that sector, and it’s a completely self-inflicted circumstance for those deadset on oil.

Facing reality and evaluating technologies through the crucial era of the 2010s with an eye on efficiency and pollutant reduction in the overall energy sector. From there, having the empirical justifications to your nation that focusing on energy storage and further electrification would be more beneficial than fossil fuels.

Rather than doubling down on the existing status quo due to lobbying and sunk cost beliefs from prior consumption rates.

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It’s recursive for Wine Is Not An Emulator. The program is a translation layer - including translating Windows specific function calls into something Linux can understand (IE: DirectX to Vulcan).

This is distinct from emulation - primarily because it allows programs to utilize native functions of the machine and has much less performance overhead compared to true windows emulation (which is just a VM with extra steps).

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“Hey, you! You’re finally awake. Trying to run Adobe software right? The boys managed to get things working smoothly with a virtualized method. They call it Winboat, a cut down VM that breaks Adobe’s windows infatuation.”

Run photoshop in a virtualized environment such as Winboat rather than directly through translation (Wine). It is a rather nuclear option, but as far as compatibility goes, can’t beat a barebones virtual machine.

If you have the activation key/account, you could try installing it through Winboat or similar on your distro of choice, since Winboat’s essentially a per-program VM that should theoretically have perfect compatibility.

You probably don’t need to do that. There’s lists for DRM free games on steam out there (Toby Fox games are good examples)